The Exact Shape of the Islands is a documentary shot in the remote Malvinas / Falkland islands, an almost unknown space, mainly remembered because of the 1982 war between Argentina and the UK. The film tells the story of two trips. The first one shows the return to the islands of two Argentine ex-combatants, through the amateur camera lens of Julieta, a young woman who is doing research on the literature of the war. The second trip, in 2010, records Julieta’s return to Malvinas, exploring the consequences, not only of the war, but also of the personal contacts she established during her first trip.

Followed by a conversation with the film’s directors NYUBA Professor Edgardo Dieleke and Daniel Casabé.

March 29th, Tuesday, 2016
6.45 PM - Buenos Aires

NYU Buenos Aires
Anchorena 1314
Capital Federal
Argentina

Edgardo Dieleke and Daniel Casabé

Daniel Casabé

His first film was Cracks de nácar (Hot Button Players, 2011), which he directed with Edgardo Dieleke. Cracks de nácar was presented in the XIII BAFICI Film Festival in Buenos Aires (2011), among other venues, and was commercially released this year in theatres in Argentina.

Daniel Casabé majored in Filmmaking at the Universidad del Cine, where he also taught Film Editing. He worked as an editor and image post-producer inbseveral films. Among other titles he worked in Love: the first part (Fadel, Mauregui, Mitre and Schnitman, 2004); The chair game (Ana Katz, 2003) and El transcurso de las cosas (Esteban Menis, 2005). He directed the TV show Corto Circuito, which screened short-films, and founded the production company Bloco in 2007.

Edgardo Dieleke

Edgardo Dieleke co directed Hot Button Players (2011) also with Daniel Casabé, a film that was selected for the XIII BAFICI (Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival) and was commercially released in 2013. He started to make films first as a critic, when he was completing his PhD in Latin American Literature and Cultures. He earned his PhD from Princeton University in 2013 with a dissertation on the boundaries of documentary and fiction.

He is currently working as a scriptwriter and as professor in NYU Buenos Aires and other institutions, teaching courses on Film and Literature. He is developing with Daniel Casabé a feature film.